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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

We dedicate the March edition of WONCA News to women worldwide, especially to our Primary Care colleagues and female family doctors, for their crucial work in ensuring health for all. To all of them, we pay this special tribute in which we bring together stories, quotes and reflections of our WONCA President, Dr Anna Stavdal, our Working Parties, Special Interest Groups and multiplemembersoftheWONCAfamily. We thank the collaboration of our colleagues in Primary Care aroun the world, as we raise our voicesforgenderequality!

DR ANNA STAVDAL WONCA PRESIDENT

WONCA PRESIDENT ANNA STAVDAL'S REFLECTION ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

In past years on March 8th, we’ve raised the megaphone to increase awareness of the unfinished business of gender equality. Today, let us use it to highlight the all too often unnoticed, un-hailed, ongoing, daily life bravery of those of carrying on with what used to be called ‘women’s work’ .Somebodyhastodoit,anditneverends. At this moment, even as some are fleeing, for hours and days, toward uncertain safety, women are caring for the families of soldiering men. All the while, as they are managing their own fear, and missing their husbands, fathers, brothers, sons, they are doing the feeding, washing, clothing, warming, comforting, nurturing, as best they can. During peacetime, many good, strong men join in doing that. But throughout history, at peace and at war, women have always managed it. Somehow. This is not a romanticization – it has simply been the case. Yet, there is no Nobel Prize inCaregiving.